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ENGLISH
Paper – II

Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions. Each question carries
two (2) marks. All questions are compulsory.

1. Which novelist did not belong to the 4. Which of the following works by
eighteenth century ? Samuel Beckett is not a drama ?
(A) Laurence Sterne (A) Krapp’s Last Tape
(B) Tobias Smollett (B) Malone Dies
(C) William Thackeray
(C) Waiting for Godot
(D) Samuel Richardson
(D) Endgame
2. Which statement is not true about the
authorised version of the Bible ? 5. Which of the following statements about
Salman Rushdie is not true ?
(A) It took nine years to complete
(A) He was born in 1947 in Bombay
(B) It was commissioned by King
Henry VIII (B) His Midnight’s Children won the
(C) It was proposed by the Hampton Booker
Court Conference of 1604 (C) The Moor’s Last Sigh is set in
(D) The translation was carried out by North Africa
47 different scholars (D) The Satanic Verses was banned in
India
3. Match the following :

List – I List – II 6. To which genre does Milton’s Comus

belong ?
(a) Stella (i) William
Wordsworth (A) Epic
(b) Lucy (ii) Robert Herrick (B) Tragedy
(c) Julia (iii) Jonathan Swift (C) Sonnet
(d) Mand (iv) Alfred (D) Masque
Tennyson
Codes : 7. Who of the following did not win the
(a) (b) (c) (d) Nobel Prize for literature ?
(A) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv) (A) Derek Walcott
(B) (ii) (iii) (i) (iv) (B) V. S. Naipaul
(C) (iii) (i) (iv) (ii) (C) James Joyce
(D) (i) (iv) (ii) (iii) (D) Winston Churchill

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8. Which of the following is not a character 12. What do the following writers have in
in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales ? common ?
(A) The Miller Thomas Kyd
Cyril Tourneur
(B) The Shipman
John Webster
(C) The Mercer Thomas Middleton
(D) The Pardoner (A) They were all authors of Restoration
Comedy
9. Which novelist was born, lived in and
wrote about the industrial north of (B) They were all University wits.
England ? (C) They all wrote revenge tragedies
(A) Charles Dickens (D) They were all followers of
(B) George Eliot Ben Jonson
(C) Elizabeth Gaskell 13. Which of the following is an example of
(D) William Thackeray Euphemism ?
(A) Dost sometimes counsel take and
10. The poet whose name is associated with sometimes tea
fascism in the 1930s is
(B) The Assyrian came down like a
(A) W. B. Yeats
wolf on the fold
(B) W. H. Auden
(C) And in this flea our two bloods
(C) Ezra Pound mingled be
(D) Robert Lowell (D) The spring, the head, the fountain
of your blood is stopp’d
11. Match the following :
List – I List – II 14. In the opening of Dicken’s Bleak House,
(a) Elizabeth (i) Ted Hughes what weather phenomenon is used to
Barrett symbolise the bleakness of the situation ?
(b) Sylvia Plath (ii) George Lewes (A) Rain
(c) George Eliot (iii) Robert (B) Wind
Browning (C) Fog
(d) Dorothy (iv) William Temple (D) Hailstones
Osborne
Codes : 15. Which of the following statements
(a) (b) (c) (d) about George Bernard Shaw is not true ?

(A) (i) (iii) (ii) (iv) (A) He was a Fabian Socialist

(B) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv) (B) He was a Roman Catholic

(C) (ii) (iv) (i) (iii) (C) He was a Vegetarian
(D) (iv) (ii) (iii) (i) (D) He was a proponent of Monarchy

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16. Malcolm Lowry, author of Under the 21. Who said that “Shakespeare
Volcano belongs to approximates the remote and
familiarizes the wonderful” ?
(A) Britain
(A) Matthew Arnold
(B) Australia (B) Dr. Johnson
(C) US (C) Ben Jonson
(D) Canada (D) Eliot

17. The essay ‘Death of the Author’ is 22. Who is the author of the novels The
Grass is Singing, The Golden Notebook,
associated with which French critic ? Memoirs of a Survivor and The
(A) Michael Foucault Sweetest Dream ?
(B) Roland Barthes (A) Nadine Gordimer
(B) Tony Morrison
(C) Jacques Derrida
(C) Doris Lessing
(D) Jacques Lacan
(D) Margaret Drabble
18. Which of these writers did not commit 23. Yann Martel, the author of the Booker
suicide ? Prize winning novel Life of Pi is
(A) F. Scott Fitzgerald (A) British
(B) Ernest Hemingway (B) Canadian
(C) Australian
(C) Kafka
(D) Indian
(D) Sylvia Plath
24. Match the following :
19. The Poet Laureate of England at List – I List – II
present is (a) Elaine (i) Thinking about
(A) Andrew Motion Showalter Women
(b) Kate Millett (ii) A Literature of
(B) Carol Ann Duffy their Own
(C) John Betjeman (c) John Stuart (iii) Sexual Politics
(D) Ted Hughes Mill
(d) Mary Ellman (iv) The Subjection
20. Which poem of Keats begins with the of Women
line “A thing of beauty is a joy forever” ? Codes :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) Eudymion
(A) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(B) Ode on a Grecian Urn
(B) (ii) (iv) (iii) (i)
(C) Eve of St. Agnes (C) (i) (iii) (iv) (ii)
(D) Ode to Autumn (D) (i) (iv) (iii) (ii)

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25. Which is not a work by Joseph Conrad ? 29. Raymond Williams is associated with
(A) Nigger of the Narcissus (A) New Historicism
(B) Lord Jim (B) Neo Humanism
(C) The Secret Agent
(C) Deconstruction
(D) The Longest Journey
(D) Marxism
26. Of all English verse forms _________
is closest to the natural rhythms of 30. Alexandrine is a
English speech. (A) Line of six iambic feet
(A) Free verse
(B) Stanza of six rhyming lines
(B) Vers libre
(C) Stanza of six unrhyming lines
(C) Rhyme Royal
(D) Blank Verse (D) Matrical foot with three stressed
syllables
27. Who among the following is known for
his interpretation of Hamlet’s character 31. Match the following :
from a Freudian point of view ? List – I List – II
(A) A. A. Brill (a) Nation and (i) Aijaz Ahmad
(B) Earnest Jones Narration
(C) F. L. Lucas (b) In Theory (ii) Salman
(D) Edna Kenton Rushdie

28. Match the following titles with their (c) Imaginary (iii) Terry Eagleton
subtitles : Homelands
List – I List – II (d) Marxism and (iv) Homi Bhabha
(a) The Importance (i) What You Will Literary
of Being criticism
Earnest Codes :
(b) Twelfth Night (ii) A Pure Woman
Faithfully (a) (b) (c) (d)
Presented (A) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(c) Tess of the (iii) The Modern
d’Ubervilles Prometheus (B) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)
(d) Frankenstein (iv) A Trivial (C) (i) (iii) (ii) (iv)
Comedy for
Serious People (D) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv)
Codes :
32. Joanne Murray uses the pseudonym
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (iv) (ii) (i) (iii) (A) George Eliot
(B) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv) (B) A. M. Bernard
(C) (i) (iii) (ii) (iv) (C) J. K. Rowling
(D) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii) (D) J. D. Robb

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33. Oroonoko (The Royal Slave) is written by 38. The title of D. H. Lawrence’s
(A) Fanny Burney The Rainbow symbolises

(B) Elizabeth Carter (A) Spectrum

(B) Colourful life
(C) Chinua Achebe
(C) Uniting principle of heaven
(D) Aphra Behn
and earth
34. About which author did Nirad C. Chaudhuri (D) Complex hues of modern life
remark that “he will be read by everyone
who wants to know not only British India 39. “The beams so reverend and strong
but also timeless India”. Why shoulds’t thou think ?
I could eclipse and cloud them with
(A) Rabindranath Tagore a wink”
(B) Rudyard Kipling Identify the figure of speech
(C) T. S. Eliot (A) Simile
(D) Prem Chand (B) Hyperbole
(C) Metaphor
35. A stressed syllable followed by two
unstressed syllables is called a (D) Oxymoron
(A) Trochee 40. The book The Prison house of
(B) Iamb Language is authored by
(C) Anapest (A) Terry Eagleton
(D) Dactyl (B) Chomsky
(C) Fredric Jameson
36. Identify the anthropological work that
(D) Raymond Williams
contributed to the development of the
Archetypal School of criticism. 41. The first critic to theorise on feminism
(A) Quest for Myth among the following was
(B) From Ritual to Romance (A) Julia Kristeva
(C) The Golden Bough (B) Toni Morrison
(D) The Anatomy of Criticism (C) Simone de Beauvoir
(D) Linda Hutcheon
37. In ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’
T. S. Eliot offers a critique of 42. The Spenserian Stanza consists of
(A) Romantic position ____________ lines.
(B) Historical position (A) 9
(C) Classical Position (B) 8
(D) Aristotle’s Position (C) 7
(D) 6

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43. The omniscient point of view is a
(A) First person point of view
(B) View of God
(C) Third person point of view
(D) Second person point of view
44. Sea of Poppies is written by
(A) Amitav Ghosh
(B) Jhumpa Lahiri
(C) Shashi Tharoor
(D) Vikram Seth
45. James Joyce’s Ulysses is modelled on
(A) Odyssey
48. Wordsworth argues that there is no
essential difference between
(A) Comedy and tragedy
(B) Epic and novel
(C) Romantic poetry and classical
poetry
(D) The language of prose and
metrical composition
49. “Courage ! he said and pointed towards
the land”
In this opening line of Tennyson’s ‘Lotus

(B) Iliad Eaters’, ‘he’ refers to

(C) Aeneid (A) Ulysses

(D) The Paradise Lost
(B) Homer
46. In Jane Austen’s novel Emma, Emma (C) God
marries
(D) Navigator
(A) Frank Churchill
(B) Robert Martin
50. “The grave’s a fine and private place
(C) Mr. Knightley
But none, I think, do there embrace”
(D) Mr. Elton
These witty lines occur in the poem
47. W. B. Yeats’ ‘Leda and the Swan’ is
(A) Lycidas
based on
(A) Roman mythology (B) To His Coy Mistress

(B) Pagan mythology (C) The Tyger

(C) Greek mythology (D) Sunne Rising
(D) Christian mythology
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